The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says the country’s taxpayers will soon increase to 45 million. Fowler Mr Wahab Gbadamosi, the Head, Communications and SERVICOM Department, in a statement in Abuja on Monday said the Executive Secretary, Joint Tax Board (JTB), Mr Oseni Elamah, disclosed this at the presentation of the new Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) Registration System report.
The report was presented to the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Babatunde Fowler, who is also the Chairman of the JTB. Elama said that as of December 2018, Nigeria’s taxpayers’ database expanded from 20 million to 35 million. He said the ongoing integration of the database would give the nation a total of 45 million individual and corporate taxpayers. Read more